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mickey pearce - michael - swamp 81 - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Bass

1. Interlude One
2. Why Would You?
3. Polyester
4. Interlude Three
5. Cakes
6. August
7. Quite (Bonus Beats)
8. Lately
9. Interlude Two
10. Old Habits
11. Less

Last summer, four years after Loefah first floated the idea of a Mickey Pearce album, Mickey sat down to write a mixtape of loops - a sequel to 2014's 'Up West' - but found himself in new, melancholic territory. Less than three months later 'Michael' was written. Ahead of the radio premiere of 'August', Mickey told Mary Anne Hobbs: "The whole album was written in a short space of time last summer... [it] just sounds like me in August 2015. I haven't written anything that sounds like it before or since." Mickey has also developed a new live show that translates the album for the club environment. The live performance follows the arc of the record, adding layers of improvisation and a solid core of drums that place it in a club context. Road-tested at 81 sessions in Berlin, Leeds and London, Mickey debuted the full live at Peckham Rye Music Festival earlier this month.